motxilo

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by motxilo 13y ago
The good news is that SICP is an illuminating experience, the bad news are it took me 1 year to go through it, doing all the exercises along the way.
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by motxilo 14y ago
Math + Haskell = http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/
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Google acquires TxVia in an effort to expand Google Wallet (ubergizmo.com)
1 points by motxilo 15y ago|0 comments
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by motxilo 15y ago
http://www.anatomy-class.org http://www.greenbuilding-class.org https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu
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by motxilo 15y ago
There is no need to be rude, mst. If people don't consider such submissions interesting, they simply won't vote them up.
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by motxilo 15y ago
Personally, I am not a fan of these lookma-my-interpreter-in-zero-lines stuff. Take a look at http://norvig.com/lispy.html . Bigger, but well engineered.
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by motxilo 15y ago
Related to this, what are good book authoring tools? Or at least the ones you use for writing stuff that can be exported to pdf, html or printed out. I'm talking things in the line of Tex, Docbook, etc.
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by motxilo 15y ago
I spent a whole year going through the entire SICP, and doing all the exercises. It is not only a matter of "being technical", if there are exercises and you want to do them, your goose is cooked.
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by motxilo 15y ago
"if you think that modern times have no relation to the past come visit spain and try to get internet installed in your flat. colleagues in barcelona fought for 12 months..." Really? If we tend to generalize out of just one example, then ye
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by motxilo 15y ago
We are still looking forward to your book about probability theory & statistics for programmers. Really.
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by motxilo 15y ago
Not the only factor, but compound interest favors bigger over smaller amounts of money.
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Ask HN: Do you read in the toilet? :)
3 points by motxilo 15y ago|1 comments
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by motxilo 15y ago
Drum & Bass, mainly. It keeps me awake, no need for coffee.
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Programmers Go Bananas(programming-musings.org)
2 points by motxilo 15y ago|0 comments
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by motxilo 15y ago
It is not just a difference in syntax, it is about the core. While all those programming languages are great in their respective areas, Scheme is directly based on the lambda calculus and as such it defines a minimal amount of primitives/co
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by motxilo 15y ago
"A little history of the world" by E.H. Gombrich. I've never been too enthusiastic about History in general, but I couldn't put this book down until finished.
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by motxilo 15y ago
Related: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
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by motxilo 15y ago
I'm also taking the Algorithms class! I'm afraid it is going to be a bit math-heavy, but anyhow it looks promising :)
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by motxilo 15y ago
A solid foundation is of paramount importance: SICP & Discrete Mathematics, for example. The rest will come later.
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Set Theory: Should You Believe?(web.maths.unsw.edu.au)
2 points by motxilo 15y ago|0 comments
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Well-ordering of reals(kuro5hin.org)
2 points by motxilo 15y ago|0 comments
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by motxilo 15y ago
To make everything nice and symmetrical, think of a "square" of classes.
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by motxilo 15y ago
My fault. Good catch, thanks.
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Strange Loop 2011 - Slides(github.com)
4 points by motxilo 15y ago|2 comments
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by motxilo 15y ago
That book is more directed towards interpreters.
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by motxilo 15y ago
You can examine Chapter 4 of Essentials of Programming Languages for the basics of type inference ;)
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Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by motxilo 15y ago|0 comments
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by motxilo 15y ago
You are just describing what motivated Bertrand Russell to write Principia Mathematica.
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by motxilo 15y ago
And where is Number Theory?
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Environments the easy way (Scheme)(ticsblog.com)
1 points by motxilo 15y ago|0 comments

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